And should it really clock in at four and a half hours with this many honorees? But if Jimmy Page shows up to your event, without warning, and starts shredding for the first time in nearly a decade, the transient property of rock means you’re doing something correctly. Kate Bush, Sheryl Crow, Missy Elliott, George Michael, Willie Nelson, Rage Against the Machine, and the Spinners were inducted as performers, while various backdoor categories nearly doubled the class with the addition of DJ Kool Herc, Link Wray, Chaka Khan, Al Kooper, Bernie Taupin, and Don Cornelius. After Rock & Roll Hall of Fame co-founder Jann Wenner showed his ass by stating he felt female and Black musicians were never “articulate enough” compared to their white peers - leading to his ouster from the Hall’s board - the show still had to go on, somehow, a few weeks later at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. The timing couldn’t have been worse for this. Photo: Getty Images/Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
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